The other day I was searching through boxes of old photographs and came across a bundle of colour negatives which turned out to be photographs that I had taken of the Royal Alexandra back in 1988. It would have been great to have had them when I wrote the blog post on theformer Royal ...
The promise of underlying order and coherence, of knowability, is held out by fiction, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson put it: “Life is monstrous, infinite, illogical, abrupt and poignant; a work of art, in comparison, is neat, finite, self-contained, rational …”引自The Victorian novel ...
In earlier ages we witnessed a government which laid stress on royalty and class privilege, the spirit of which was clarioned by Shakespeare in the lines: Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king. In the Victorian or modern age the divine right of...
DAMIAN: A large part of Thursday’s early life would have seen the harsh realities of the Depression and then later more positive aspects such as the Attlee government and the creation of the Welfare State and the NHS. How do you think factors such as these shaped Thursday not only as a ...